PLASTIC PAPER: WINNIPEG'S FESTIVAL OF ANIMATED, ILLUSTRATED + PUPPET FILM is an international festival that takes place May 4-7, 2011 at the Park Theatre in Winnipeg, Canada. The festival is one component of the year-round organizational activities of the Big Smash! Film Collective. PLASTIC PAPER’s programming is a mix of premieres, retrospective screenings, short films and features with special guests, workshops, multi-media presentations, installations and exhibits, artist talks, and gatherings where the artists and the audience can interact more informally.

PLASTIC PAPER is currently accepting submissions for short and feature-length animated films made after Jan. 1, 2010.  THERE IS NO ENTRY FEE. DEADLINE: Feb 1, 2011. Download the entry form at www.plastic-paper.org

Plastic Paper Trailer (Short) from clint enns on Vimeo.

TAIS 2011 Bunny Jam - Call for Submissions

In honour of the Toronto Animated Image Society (TAIS) mascot and this year’s Chinese zodiac sign, we are proud to announce that this year’s theme for the TAIS AniJam, ten second animations that will screen in rapid succession at the TAIS Showcase in June, is ... BUNNIES! (Rabbits, hares, Thumper and Bugs, bucks, does, energizers, playboys, and any other idea you may have related to voracious procreators and twitchy noses.)

Create a ten-second long animated film that somehow encompasses our “bunny” theme. Use any animation technique you want. Submit it to TAIS and we’ll edit the submissions into a Bunny AniJam film that will screen at the TAIS Showcase in June 2011 in Toronto!

Bunny Jam submissions are eligible for awards and prizes!

Submit your film as a QuickTime file using by CD/DVD, via ftp, file hosting site or link to your webspace with attached submission form, a brief bio and two 2 x 3 stills (high res jpeg) from your film. Format of all Bunny Jam submissions should be a 1280 x 720 QuickTime/24 fps using our preferred codecs ProRes or Photo Jpeg with 48kHz sound. Bunny Jams should not be any more or less than 10 seconds. If submitting by DVD, please ensure you make a data file DVD (not instantly playable).

Submission form available at:
http://www.tais.ca/bunnyjam_submission_form.pdf

Submission deadline is May 15, 2011.

Send your submissions to:
Toronto Animated Image Society
Bunny Jam Submission
60 Atlantic Ave. Suite 102
Toronto, Ontario M6K 1X9
CANADA

If you want to submit your film digitally via file hosting or ftp link, send info to tais@bellnet.ca

For more info, visit http://www.tais.ca

Have you made an animated short film in the last 18 months? Want it to screen to a packed house as part of the fantastic TAIS Showcase this June in Toronto? Then submit!

The Toronto Animated Image Society (TAIS) is seeking independent animated films completed after June 2009 that are under 15 minutes in length for the TAIS ANIMATION SHOWCASE screening this June 23, 2011 at Innis Town Hall (University of Toronto, 2 Sussex Avenue). All genres, mediums, techniques, themes accepted, both narrative and non-narrative. 

There is no entry fee to submit work. Artist fees paid for all selected films.

Films should be submitted ONLY as QuickTime movie files on DVD/CD or via a download link for the file(s). Please send either a 1280 x 720 Quicktime file or a 720 x 480 Quicktime file using our preferred codecs ProRes or Photo Jpeg with 48kHz sound.

Send your submission to: 
Toronto Animated Image Society
TAIS Showcase 2011
60 Atlantic Avenue, Suite 102
Toronto, Ontario M6K 1X9 
CANADA

Please include a completed submission form ( downloadable at www.tais.ca/animationshowcase_submissionform.pdf ), an artist bio and two film stills (tiff or jpg @ 300 dpi – 2 x 3). Submission form, bio, contact info and download links may be emailed to tais@bellnet.ca or included in mailed submission package. Please do not send large files via email.

DEADLINE FOR SUBMISSIONS:
Monday, May 16, 2011, 5:00 pm

For more info, visit  www.tais.ca

We like our films short, sweet ... and silent!

The Toronto Urban Film Festival (TUFF) returns for a sixth year to digital platform screens across the Toronto subway system, September 7 - 17, 2012, concurrent with the Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF).

Named one of MovieMaker Magazine's "20 Coolest Film Festivals" (2010), TUFF is a 10-day long celebration of the art of the urban silent screen. TUFF films screen on the Pattison Onestop network of digital platform screens to over 1.3 million daily commuters.

Filmmakers, video artists and animators are invited to submit their work to TUFF now at http://www.torontourbanfilmfestival.com

The festival accepts all genres of silent, one-minute film, video and animation that are of interest to a cosmopolitan audience.

Submission deadline is July 15, 2012. Submit free before May 31, 2012. After June 1, 2012 a $20 fee will apply.

TUFF is open to Canadian and international artists, and awards thousands of dollars in cash and prizes. Animation prizes include softward from Toon Boom Animation. 

TUFF is co-produced by Pattison Onestop and Art for Commuters.

Deadline: July 15, 2012
Free Submission: Before May 31, 2012
Paid Submission: $20 CAD. After June 1, 2012.

Films can be submitted online through the TUFF Website or visit http://www.torontourbanfilmfestival.com/submit for more details.

The 1st Annual Shanghai International Cartoon Carnival is an animation and comics festival targeted at children and teenagers. The focus of the Carnival is screenings of animation, interactive games, fan-based activities (COSPLAY, fan-art), and live games. Emphasis is placed solely on the enjoyment of the attendees (viz., children). As this is the first year of the event, there will be no competition or entry fees. All major formats, including animation with linked live performances, are acceptable for submission. If interested, please send details of your organization and content to the address provided.

Cartoon and animation business has become a giant cultural industry globally. In 2004, the output of the global animation industry amounted to US$222.8 billion and the peripheral and derivative products related to the animation industry topped US$500 billion. With a history of development of 80 years, the cartoon and animation industry in China is witnessing another manificent surge present. For the purpose of promoting the healthy and rapid development of the national cartoon and animation industry and create huge market demand for animation products, the State Administration of Radio, Film and Television would host a state-level China international cartoon and animation festival annually from 2005. The year 2005 witnessed the succes of the 1st China International Cartoon and Animation Festival blooming in Hangzhou, whose scale and level was unprecedented in China. Hangzhou will host the 2nd China International Cartoon and Animation Festival after the successful holding.
You are sincerely invited to take part in the 2nd China International Cartoon and Animation Festival!!

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March 25, 2005
Deadline: March 25, 2005

Fantacine, a new Colombian cultural project dedicated to the promotion of the young audiovisual creation, is hosting The First International Presentation Of Movies Made By Children. Itsobjective is to show audiovisual productions made by children from all over the world to Colombian children to incentive their interest in the cinema. For more information, contact the event at tel.: +091 2760992, fax: +091 8633475 or e-mail: fantacineinfo@yahoo.com.

Zagreb: 17th World Festival of Animated Films is an ASIFA sanctioned competitive festival. The festival was formed in 1969 to encouraging creativity, which eschews pre-set patterns and ideas/notions/conceptions, and finds new ways of exploring the possibilities of film animation. Awards with cash prizes will be given as follows: grand prize, best first production, best student film, plus five special prizes and three special distinctions. For more information, visit www.animafest.hr.

Zagreb is perhaps the hidden gem that has survived through some terribly tough times and blows. Borivoj "Bordo" Dovnikovic supplies us with a history and look at Zagreb today. Click here!

Zagreb: 18th World Festival of Animated Films is an ASIFA sanctioned competitive festival. The festival was formed in 1969 to encouraging creativity, which eschews pre-set patterns and ideas/notions/conceptions, and finds new ways of exploring the possibilities of film animation. Awards with cash prizes will be given as follows: grand prize, best first production, best student film, plus five special prizes and three special distinctions.

Deadline for films made in 2004 and 2005 is Dec. 15 2005. Deadline for films finished in January 2006 is Feb. 15, 2006. For more information, visit www.animafest.hr.

Sci-Fi-London announced that Electronic Arts, the world's leading interactive entertainment software company, will be the official games sponsor for this year's Sci-Fi-London, the UK's only dedicated science fiction and fantastic film festival which will run from April 30-May 4, 2008 at the Apollo West End theatre. View the entire lineup at www.sci-fi-london.com/festival/2008/programme/. As exclusive games sponsor, EA will be showcasing PC and console titles as part of the festival line-up, to include MASS EFFECT, COMMAND & CONQUER 3: KANE'S WRATH, SPORE and BOOM BLOX, while festival-goers will also get the chance to see a sneak preview of the forthcoming epic space horror game DEAD SPACE. Moviestorm is another key sponsor of Sci-Fi-London. Festival-goers will see exclusive trailers for the games before film screenings, with the opportunity to play them and win merchandise. EA activities during the festival will include: --The chance for visitors to play some of its key current titles as well as sneak peeks and demos of unreleased games. --Big-screen trailers and teasers. --Supporting Sci-Fi-London's artist-in-residence, The Artful Dodger (aka A-Dee), who will create a series of science fiction themed canvases in the window of Forbidden Planet (Shaftesbury Avenue, WC1) from April 24 for seven days.